TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale arrested by the Gujarat police, claims party

The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday (December 6) claimed that the Gujarat Police has arrested its spokesperson Saket Gokhale, terming it as a “political vendetta”.

In a tweet, TMC national spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien detailed the circumstances under which the arrest was made.

Gokhale took a flight from New Delhi to Jaipur at 9 pm on Monday (December 5). When he landed, the Gujarat Police was at the airport in Rajasthan waiting for him. They picked him up from the airport. At 2 am on Tuesday, Gokhale called his mother and told her that the police were taking him to Ahmedabad and he would reach that city by noon, claimed O’Brien.

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TMC national spokesperson @SaketGokhale arrested by Gujarat Police.

Saket took a 9pm flight from New Delhi to Jaipur on Mon. When he landed, Gujarat Police was at the airport in Rajasthan waiting for him and picked him up. 1/3

— Derek O'Brien | ডেরেক ও'ব্রায়েন (@derekobrienmp) December 6, 2022

“The police let him make that two-minute phone call and then confiscated his phone and all his belongings,” the TMC leader said on Twitter.

“The cooked up case is filed with the Ahmedabad cyber cell about Saket’s tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse. All this cannot silence the All India Trinamool Congress and the Opposition. BJP is taking political vendetta to another level,” he alleged.

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When contacted, Jaipur airport police station SHO Digpal Singh said he had no such information. “I have no information. Nobody informed us,” he said.

(With inputs from agencies)